Since 2011, the photographer Moises Saman has been documenting the upheaval in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia. Though the photographs collectively capture the events of the past four years, his project “Discordia: The Arab Spring” is less literal, less linear. “From the start, I didn’t see ‘Discordia’ as a straightforward journalistic project but rather an exploration through imagery of my personal experience of the Arab Spring,” Saman wrote in an e-mail.

George Steinmetz has shot his iconic aerial photographs from the skies over more than seventy countries, including China, Israel, and Libya. For the past year, however, Steinmetz, who lives in suburban New Jersey, has remained closer to home, trading his paraglider for a helicopter to explore New York City and its surroundings. As winter turned to summer, Steinmetz’s desolate, snow-covered scenes–the Coney Island carousel, a lot filled with Richard Serra sculptures–became vibrant landscapes replete with picnickers, athletes, and High Line promenaders. The photographs of familiar places in the city are mesmerizing in their detail: a ballet dancer in Central Park, a tennis player mid-leap, the reactions of sunbathers at Chelsea Piers.

Fifty years ago—more than two decades before he became a member of Congress—John Lewis spoke at the March on Washington. “Certainly, King’s speech was the most eloquent that day, but the most ferocious was John Lewis’s,” David Remnick says in the audio commentary below. To hear this and more, watch the video and explore our multimedia Portfolio “The Promise,” from 2010, about leaders of the civil-rights movement, including Andrew Young, Harry Belafonte, and the Little Rock Nine.

Pari Dukovic, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, will see his first solo show open at Giacobetti Paul Gallery in Dumbo tonight.

Over the course of two years, Dukovic photographed burlesque performers in New York City. His interest in the scene was fuelled by the contrast between an artist’s public and private persona: “A burlesque performer takes a piece of themselves and builds a character in their fantasy world,” he writes. “While these performances take place in public, performers actually share a very private story.”

Our photographers are continuing to document the aftermath of Sandy in New York City. Here’s what they saw on Halloween (2012), from the search for power in Manhattan to the devastation of the Rockaways in Queens.

Our photographers—including Massimo Berruti, an Italian on his first trip to the city, and newcomer Adrian Fussell—continued shooting into the night on Tuesday, documenting debilitating damage in Far Rockaway and an eerie Lower Manhattan. Nina Berman, who lives uptown, writes, “The point of reference, like the North Star, is the Empire State Building, the line of demarcation. Everything north of the building is normal, as though little happened. South of it is like another world, unreal, quiet, like a movie set.”

Our photographers—including Massimo Berruti, an Italian on his first trip to the city, and newcomer Adrian Fussell—continued shooting into the night on Tuesday, documenting debilitating damage in Far Rockaway and an eerie Lower Manhattan. Nina Berman, who lives uptown, writes, “The point of reference, like the North Star, is the Empire State Building, the line of demarcation. Everything north of the building is normal, as though little happened. South of it is like another world, unreal, quiet, like a movie set.”

As stir-crazy New Yorkers stepped out this morning to assess the fury of mother nature, our photographers fanned out across the city—on foot, bicycle, and four wheels—to document the damage from Sheepshead Bay to the Lower East Side. Click on the red arrows in the upper right corner for a fullscreen view.